Hair curling device



J. H. WILBURN, JR EMWJW HAIR CURLING DEVICE Filed July 5, 1935.

Patented Mar. 31. 1936 l I g g g UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,036,110 HAIR opaLING DEVICE John H. Wilburn, Jr., Texarkana, Tex.

Application July 3, 1935, Serial No. 29,692

3 Claims. (Cl. 132-37) This invention relates to a hair curling device Fig. 2, the central portion of the handle is cut and more particularly to an instrumentality for away so that the slot tapers rearwardly from use in rolling human hair into what are termed the nose 6 toward the opening I. finger curls. The rear portion of the member 4 is thickened The principal object of the present invention so as to be readily grasped in the operators hand 5 is to construct an apparatus which clasps and while the forward portion of the handle beyond holds the hair until the curl is completed and the nose or pivot point 6 is cut away to form a to eliminate the use of heated curling irons. transverse groove I! having a forward lug or Heretofore, beauticians have formed socalled nose 8. A longitudinal bore or socket 9 is made I finger curls by moistening the hair and winding in the front end of the handle to accommodate a 10 it around an ordinary led pencil but this procestraight rod member II! which forms the lower dure is very awkward and slow and often necesholding means for the curl. sitates a considerable amount of work on the Near the forward end of the handle and appart of the operator as the wet hair clings to the proximately at the forward end of the slot 5 i wood and many times destroys the curl when the is a shallow transverse groove I I while adjacent pencil is removed. This method also entails the the middle of the handle is a second deep transholding of the ends of the hair with the fingers verse channel I2. 4 and thumb while the pencil is turned to form the A rod I3 is bent into a substantial parallelocurl. gram with overlapping ends I5 and. IE to form a By using the present curler, even the most unspring I4 and,- as shown in Fig. 3, the overlapping skilled operator can form perfect curls as the ends are bent outwardly from one another to prongs of the device are smooth wire rods and thus form a compression member. are easily removed from the curl. After the curl Referring to Figs. 5 and 7 of the drawing, it has been formed, conventional hair pins may be will be noted that after the lower rod ID has been 5 placed in the hair to hold the curl and retain it aflixed in its socket the upper bent lever rod I in proper conformation during the time it is dryis placed in the groove 5 between the prongs 8 ing from the lotion which is customarily used to with the depending portion 3 of the rod lying saturate the hair before the curl is formed. in the bore I. The spring I4 is thereafter posi- In the drawing: tioned so that the free end I5 lying in the trans- Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the movable wire verse groove I I and, as shown, the straight side rod which forms the upper prong of the device. opposite the free ends fits in the deep channel I2.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the handle element It will be readily understood that a simple rubin which the openings and indentations are shown her band may be looped in the upper and lower in cross sectional lines. grooves in lieu of the compression spring. This 1 Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate a side and top elevais of value in the event that the spring breaks tion respectively of the spring member which and a replacement is not available. holds the upper lever and prong in contact with In operation the hair curler is grasped in the the handle member. hand of the operator who presses the section 2 Fig. 5 is a side view of the assembled device of the rod I which causes the rod to pivot over I Show it in dotted lines When in p positionthe nose 6 against the tension of the assembly 40 Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the assembled curler. spring up The dow'nwardly t Section 3 f Fig. 7 is a vertical section through the handle the rod descends through the Opening in the member taken on 9 of handle as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5.

More partlculafly 1n the draiwmgi The hair to be curled, which has previously 5 Numeral. I i honzomal round been saturated with some lotion,isgrasped at the 5 made of wlre Whlch bent upwardly at 2 and ends and placed between the opened rods I and downwardly at Thls rod forms the upper II], whereupon the resiliency of the spring clamps able lever of the hair curler and is retained in handle member This handle member may be the hair tightly and the operator then rotates Composed f wood or molded ncmheat Conduct the handle member 4 causing the strands of hair ing material such as bakelite. The upper surface to be Woundup F around the a l of the member 4 is centrally slotted at 5. The pins or other faStemng-devwes a n be p a d forward portion of the slot is rounded at 6 to form in the 01111 and t e rods l and 0 S pped f om a pivot point. A vertical bore I is formed at the the curl.

5 rearward portion of the slot and, as shown in The device 1s rugged in construction, economically manufactured and easily dissembled for replacement of damaged parts.

What I claim is new and useful is:

1. A hair curler including a solid handle portion having an extended rod rigidly affixed in one end thereof, an extended pivoted rod normally lying in a groove formed in the upper face of said handle, a resilient coupling embracing said handle and binding on said pivoted rod to normally retain said rods in contact with one another.

2. A hair curler including a heat insulated handle, said handle being provided with a 1011- gitudinal groove in its upper edge, one end of said groove terminating in a transversely formed V-shaped slot, a vertical opening in said handle near its center and extended pivotally mounted rod so bent as to normally lie in the said long-i tudinal groove and bisect said V-shaped slot, the said rod being downturned adjacent its opposite end and terminating in said vertical opening; a second extended rod fixedly secured in a; socket in one end of said handle and lying in horizontal relation to said bent rod, and a spring member overlying the said bent rod and retained in said transverse slot, said spring normally urging the said pivoted rod into engagement with said fixed rod.

3. In a hair curling device of the character described, a heat insulating handle, said handle having a longitudinal slot formed in a portion of its upper surface extending inwardly from one end thereof,. a-bore formed in the slotted end of saidv handle adjacent the lower portion of said slot, an extended metal rod retained in said bore, a second metal rod lying in contact with said longitudinal slot in said handle, said second mentioned rod normally abutting the said first mentioned rod,. the opposite end of said second rod being bent upwardly away from said slot and having its end portion depending into a vertical opening in central portion of said handle, a resilient member attached to said handle and binding on said rod to hold the same in horizontal contact with saidfirst rod.

JOHN H. WILBURN, JR. 

